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Comment Re:It's a trick question (Score 1) 836

by bigjust on Monday November 16, 2009 @04:13PM (#30120680) Attached to: Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer?

Or simply wanted to have a job, and not automate themselves out of one

A Sony Camera Running Linux 209

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @02:28PM from the answer-is-yes dept.

jonr writes "At the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show, Sony presented the new camera from its Cyber-shot product line. The DSC-G3 comes with a Zeiss lens with 4x zoom, a large 3.5" touch display, and 4GB of internal memory. Most interesting is the camera's software that includes, among other things, face and scene recognition, based on Busybox and Kernel 2.6.11 for the Access Linux Platform. The camera also has built-in Wi-Fi."

Researchers One Step Closer To Creating Life 292

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 12, 2009 @05:50PM from the mad-science dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute are potentially one step closer to creating life. In an experiment they recently created enzymes that can replicate and evolve. 'It kind of blew me away,' said team member Tracey Lincoln of the Scripps Research Institute, who is working on her Ph.D. 'What we have is non-living, but we've been able to show that it has some life-like properties, and that was extremely interesting.'"

Comment grind it out (Score 1) 231

by bigjust on Friday November 14, 2008 @12:33PM (#25761347) Attached to: Job and Internship Salary Comparisons?

I started as an intern during my senior year, and eventually was promoted to FTE, but was given so much work I had to give up school. At this point I'm being paid the same as a graduate due to my 1 1/2 yrs experience, so a diploma for me would be pointless. grind it out for a year or so and you'll be able to double your meager intern salary easily.

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